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Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get ...

On the same day Alabama's Senate voted to repeal Common Core education standards in state schools, there's an interesting look at what some students - albeit very bright ones - are learning in other ...

(via SciShow) There's a rather famous problem in math of probability called the Birthday Paradox. Let's get into how it works, and how creative uses of this hypothetical problem have real-world ...